“The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as being able to walk through water without getting wet.” Rachel Naomi Remen I was doing a presentation on wellness for a group of students last week, and I…

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” Joseph Brodsky The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) “documented 1,269 demands to censor library…

“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.” Rivers Solomon, The Deep “According to a report released last week by the Pew Research Center, 1 in 5 Asian Americans have hidden parts of their culture from non-Asians at some point in their lives…’They either changed their behaviors or…

“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.” Craig D. Lounsbrough One of the challenges of working in DEI is people’s urgent fascination with the most recent DEI concept, topic, or phrase they “discovered” in an article or conversation. The…

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe Each year seems to bring a new crisis to the work of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and each month seems to find a new way to bring that crisis to the forefront of our imaginations…

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin Justice Ketanji Jackson opened her dissent in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College with these words: “Gulf-sized race-based gaps exist with respect to the health, wealth…

Happy Juneteenth! It’s official. Yesterday, President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act declaring June 19th a U.S. federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery. Juneteenth has been celebrated for over a century as Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day, Emancipation Day, and many other names signaling the…

Neurodivergence is a career maker for men like Elon Musk and Kanye West. Women aren’t afforded the same privilege. I read the title of this article on Fortune.com …

I was in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in December, and I learned a phrase that helps me reframe how I think about many aspects of my work and life: same, same…but different. I was traveling with a small group of women, and we had spent several long days traversing the mountains…